Defoe

(di fō)

Defoe, Daniel 1660-1731; Eng. writer

See Defoe in American Heritage Dictionary 4

British writer whose most famous novel, Robinson Crusoe (1719), was inspired by the exploits of a Scottish sailor and castaway, Alexander Selkirk. He also wrote Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year (both 1722).
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